In this week’s fxpodcast we speak to Milk VFX about the effects work in the new series of Doctor Who.

We talk to DD’s Doug Roble, MPC’s Rob Pieké & Side Effects’ Mark Elendt on what they’re looking forward to at SIGGRAPH 2014.

We preview the Real-Time Live! sessions at SIGGRAPH 2014 in Vancouver, talking to Real-Time Live! Chair Nico Gonzalez and jury member Ari Shapiro from USC ICT.

This week, fxguide’s Mike Seymour talks to ILM vfx supe Scott Farrar and ILM associate vfx supe Pat Tubach about the making of Transformers: Age of Extinction.

Key Shotgun users – Ben Grossmann, Zoic’s Mike Romey and DreamWorks Animation’s Lincoln Wallen – discuss their reactions to the Autodesk acquisition.

This week we speak to Robh Ruppel, an art director at Naughty Dog, about the role of art direction and production design in computer games.

Our detailed interview with SPI VFX supervisor Jerome Chen about facial performance, set re-creation and lighting in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

ILM VFX supe Ben Snow discusses the water sims, creature, digital foliage and timelapse work for Darren Aronofsky’s Noah.

This week we talk to Framestore CFX lead Juan-Luis Sanchez about digital costume design, including the incredible work he contributed to Gravity.

In this special fxpodcast, we report directly from the VFX Oscars March which took place today in Hollywood.

This week we talk to Marcos Fajardo, the founder of Solid Angle which makes the renderer Arnold.

This week we talk to SciTech winner Jeremy Selan, developer of the OpenColorIO color management framework.

Key members of Weta Digital’s visual effects team discuss the creation of Smaug, spiders, the barrel sequence and environments in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

An exclusive, in-depth interview with Daniel Lay, the formerly anonymous blogger known as VFX Soldier. What motivated him to come forward now? You may have a perception of Soldier now, we’re willing to bet you will have a different one by the end of the interview.

In our latest fxpodcast, Mike Seymour talks to renowned visual effects supervisor Janek Sirrs about crafting the effects in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Warning: plot spoilers.

This week we talk to software developer Paul Miller who has contributed to VFX packages such as Elastic Reality, Toxik, Tiffen Dfx and Silhouette.

We talk to Pixar’s TD Paul Kanyuk. Paul will be giving a course on ‘Physically Plausible Shading and Lighting on Monster’s University and Beyond’ at SIGGRAPH Asia in Hong Kong.

This week we talk to Framestore’s Tim Webber, who was the visual effects supervisor on Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity.

With the pilot episode of the much-anticipated Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. having just aired, we interview series visual effects supervisor Mark Kolpack.

We take a look at the world of voice-overs and how services like Voices.com can be used for video projects, podcast intros, commercials or animated films.

Stargate Studios visual effects supervisor Mark Spatny on television VFX awards, the industry, artistic excellence and how effects is covered in the mainstream press.

We visit Weta Workshop to discuss practical props of Elysium with Rob Gillies, Workshop Sup. & Richard Taylor – co-director of Weta Workshop. We talk about the practical HULC suits and ultra cool weapons.

Mike gives a final rundown from SIGGRAPH 2013 and talks to The Foundry’s Katana product manager Andy Lomas about an NVIDIA OptiX / Katana lighting preview demo presented by Pixar.

As a SIGGRAPH special: an interview with Ed Catmull. Pixar’s RenderMan is this year celebrating its 25th anniversary (see Main story) and Catmull helped develop and protect the renderer that has had such a key impact on the vfx and animation.

Mike and Jeff report from the SIGGRAPH 2013 show floor on Tuesday.

A special fxpodcast from SIGGRAPH 2013, Mike Seymour and Jeff Heusser report from conference sessions and an exclusive announcement from Pixar and The Foundry about Katana and RenderMan.

We chat with Double Negative’s Harry Biddle about the render-time manipulation and generation of levelsets, which allow for the art-direction of fluid sims. Biddle will be presenting at DigiPro on the 20th of July.